Objective: To debate opportunities as well as bottlenecks and lessons learnt in hybridising existing island diesel mini-grids and power plants with renewable energy and storage in the Philippines.

Moderator:

David Lecoque, Policy & Business Development Manager, ARE

Presenters:

Urbano C. Mendiola Jr., Vice-President, NPC

Paul Bertheau, Reiner Lemoine Institut

Panellists:

Daisy Marquez, Executive Director, CEnAG-Solar

John Hermann, Director & Development Manager, ILAW

12:15 – 13:45

Lunch Break

13:45 – 14:45

Increasing power supply and energy access with clean energy mini-grids in the Philippines

Objective: To debate the role of mini-grids in achieving increased power supply for remote islands in the Philippines, as well as key challenges and solutions to reach last-mile costumers for energy access.

Creating processes to scale up finance for mini-grids in the Philippines

Objective: Mini-grids face challenges in raising capital at different stages of projects, including: end-user finance, which will allow consumers to connect to a mini-grid and acquire electric appliances; business finance for small enterprises that will deliver or operate an energy system; and project finance for the capital investment. This panel will address ways of creating process to scale access to finance at different stages of mini-grid projects.

Mini-grid partnership opportunities with electric cooperatives in the Philippines

Objective: This session will include presentations from Philippines Electric Cooperatives presenting which types of partners they are looking for and opportunities in different areas of the country.

Moderator:

Edgardo R. Masongsong, Administrator, NEA

Presenters:

Rene Fajilagutan, General Manager, ROMELCO

Albert Espragante, Board President, BILECO

Henry Dulguime, President, SIARELCO

Godofredo Guya, General Manager, DASURECO

Randy Tacogdoy, Vice-President, ANTECO

16:00 – 16:10

Closing Remarks & Information about B2B Matchmaking

David Lecoque, Policy & Business Development Manager, ARE

Fri

21 Sep 2018

09:30 – 09:40

B2B Matchmaking Introduction

Objective: Matching private sector and electric cooperatives, as well as financiers and other potential project partners to scale up hybrid/clean energy mini-grids in the Philippines in a structured setting.